house to home: master bedroom
// January 3rd, 2010 // house to home
we’ve lived in our house for almost four years now. over those four years we’ve slowly added new furniture, decorations etc. since purchasing everything right away was a little expensive.
i don’t always believe everything oprah says, but i do agree with her when she says your bedroom should be your sanctuary. so this weekend we made some improvements to our bedroom, and i finally feel like it’s complete. well, almost. i still want a full length mirror.
this photo is from september of 2006. not much of a sanctuary at all is it?
sometime between then and now i took on my first sewing project and made curtains out of ikea sheets. we changed the pillow covers to red and put up pictures of us on the shelves. the shelves are actually drawer fronts from the as-is section of ikea that we placed on some shelving brackets. always, always check the as-is section! we bought 3 out of our 6 dining room chairs that way!
i recently did some more ikea shopping and purchased bedside lamps and an underbed box for storage. then for christmas we bought a new duvet cover. the light color is still growing on me since we’ve had the darker one for so long. we also purchased a monogram decal to fill the empty space over the bed. i purchased it from {this etsy shop} now our bedroom looks like this:
it also helps that my camera is awesome now.
now when i go into my bedroom, it just feels so welcoming, relaxing and best of all – complete. *sigh* well, that is when the bed is made; we’re not so great at making the bed.
i hope to post a few times a month to show how we’ve transformed our house into a home. i love reading other’s blogs to see what they’ve been up to, so i hope i can inspire someone else. or at least let you see my home.
